27 You shall not [a]forsake the (A)Levite who is within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

28 (B)“At the end of every third year you shall bring out the (C)tithe of your produce of that year and store it up within your gates. 29 And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 14:27 neglect

27 And do not neglect the Levites(A) living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.(B)

28 At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes(C) of that year’s produce and store it in your towns,(D) 29 so that the Levites (who have no allotment(E) or inheritance(F) of their own) and the foreigners,(G) the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied,(H) and so that the Lord your God may bless(I) you in all the work of your hands.

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